Jostein Gaarder Quotes

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find 'the truth for me'.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

All our experiences have led us to believe certain things about ourselves. Whether these beliefs are true or not really doesn't matter because if we accept them as true, then they are true for us.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

What you think is real is your reality.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.